Peter Angelo Cavicchia

Peter Angelo Cavicchia (22 May 1879-11 September 1967) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-NJ 9) from 4 March 1931 to 3 March 1933 (succeeding Franklin William Fort and preceding Edward Aloysius Kenney) and from NJ 11 from 4 March 1933 to 3 January 1937 (succeeding Oscar L. Auf der Heide and preceding Edward L. O'Neill).

Biography
Peter Angelo Cavicchia was born in Roccamandolfi, Molise, Italy in 1879, and he immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1888, settling in Newark. He became a lawyer in 1909 and served on the Newark Board of Education from 1917 to 1931, including service as its President from 1924 to 1926. He also became a professor at Rutgers University, teaching law. From 1931 to 1937, he served as a Republican in the US House of Representatives, and he supervised the inheritance tax in Essex County from 1937 to 1956. He died in 1967.